About Ingrid
Ingrid Wheeler is a licensed clinical social worker who uses a practical, person-centered way of working. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, mood struggles, and life changes with clear steps and steady support. Ingrid keeps sessions straightforward and goal-oriented so parents and busy adults can fit care into their lives.
She draws on client-centered therapy to listen closely and build on each person’s hopes. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and try small, testable changes.
Background and approach
Dialectical behavior therapy skills are offered when intense emotions or impulsivity make daily life harder. Over 11 years of practice in Illinois, Ingrid has worked with people facing depression, grief, relationship strain, addiction concerns, and caregiver stress. She helps people facing career shifts, midlife questions, or the emotional fallout from disasters.
Her background includes supporting veterans and those managing mood disorders and bipolar concerns. In sessions she uses straightforward tools like skill building, problem solving, and short-term goal setting. She blends motivational interviewing to help with substance use and change efforts.
People leave sessions with practical steps to try between meetings. Therapy can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules. All work is offered in English and follows Illinois LCSW standards.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building on each person’s strengths. It helps people clarify what matters most and set goals that feel relevant to their life. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical exercises to test new ways of responding to anxiety and low mood. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, reducing impulsive actions, and improving relationships.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to learn their goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. Together they will adjust the plan over time based on what is helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer sessions, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat can fit short check-ins during a busy day. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care while juggling work, parenting, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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